With Strange Fire

Tag: SpiritualAbuse

  • Hamburger Christianity

    Not hamburger most obviously! Fried avocado and shrimp salad, both much healthier for you than that delicious red meat! Originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos in 2019. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Due to some recent ridiculous claims we’re seen recently by people online I think today we need to talk about all the ways…

  • The Real Damage Caused by Patriarchy

    A few days ago I did my usual beach walk. It was just so much harder than usual because it was high tide. I’d forgotten to check the tide charts and moon phases before heading out. Few sea beans to be found. After a good hour I trudged back to the restaurant we routinely park…

  • So You’ve Been Spiritually Abused? What Next? – Dealing With Face to Face Confrontations

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 25, 2014 One of the biggest challenges I had during my recovery from spiritual abuse was what to say to the people from my old church circle when I’d run into them on the streets of my small town. They’d always want to…

  • Dude, Seriously? – Answering Kevin Swanson

    Written by Suzanne Titkmeyer originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on December 15, 2013 Recently Kevin Swanson, radio babbler and righteous rabble-rouser against all things not homeschooling fundamentalist Biblical patriarchy has been making more of an ass out of himself than usual. It’s not merely due to the fact that he has a new…

  • Adoptees: Human and Animal

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on May 12, 2014 A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking…

  • Orphan Fever

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 16, 2014 Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration. Surely you remember not too many years ago…

  • Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

    Beauty is as subjective as as many varied opinions there are over this tree stump. Some might argue it’s beautiful, some it is ugly. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 4, 2014 Recently I came across a very disturbing blog posting and another and another and another. It…

  • The Duggar Family Campaigned For Todd Akin

    Matthew 12:35 “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” You know it’s going to be bad when I post a photo of a calm blue ocean! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on October 19, 2013  Today some of the more popular media outlets like Buzzfeed,…

  • Evangelicals, Roseanne Barr and Good Christian Martyrbating!

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on June 1, 2018 I guess you’ve heard by now of this week’s newest societal outrage – the racist and cruel words by comedienne and actress Roseanne Barr? Who hasn’t? For those that didn’t it was a mean tweet issued by Ms. Barr…

  • About “That” Picture

    Sadly I am slightly defending Katie Joy Paulson. Paulson is a YouTuber and former Patheos blogger who goes by the moniker “Without a Crystal Ball.” She tends to cover reality television in her videos. One of my big objections to Ms. Paulson’s business model is not the content. It’s the methods she uses to share…